The International Women's Forum (IWF) concluded its world leadership conference on Friday in Miami, Florida, after warm and fruitful discussions on ways to build a better future for women.

During the three-day conference, hundreds of women from some 50countries gathered in Miami and shared their insights and ideas on dealing with their common challenges and building a better world, better business and better days.

"We come together to have serious dialogues around issues that impact women everywhere, the issues that the women face are universal. ... And we also want same things: we want to be regarded, we want our girl educated, and we want our family safe," IWF president Esther Silver-Parker told Xinhua.

Founded in 1982 in the United States, IWF has grown across five continents into 25 nations with some 4,500 prominent women members. The leadership association provides access, information, leadership exchange and development for women on issues of international concern.

According to Silver-Parker, one of the major programs IWF has been pushing is called as International Women's Fellowship, which would help young emerging women leaders to develop their leadership skills, so that "these young women can go back to their countries and play significant role in creating change."

Shamim Jawad, one of the IWF intentional fellows, from Afghanistan, told Xinhua that under the help of the international community and the Afghanistan government, Afghan women came a long way in the past eight years and "have achieved many milestones."

"About 5.6 million children went back to schools, 40 percent of them are girls. That is a big achievement, because girls were not permitted to go to school during the Taliban period," said Ms. Jawad, Founder and President of Ayenda (means "Future") Foundation, a non-profit Afghan Children Initiative based in Washington, the United States.

But there are "still a lot of challenges facing the Afghanistan women, to name, the main challenges are security and poverty" in the war-torn country, said Ms Jawad, whose Ayenda foundation has been committed to help Afghanistan's children to "gain the confidence and the skills necessary to begin writing a new chapter of Afghan history."

Like Ms. Jawad, there were some other international fellows also participated the IWF world leadership conference. For these young women leaders, the forum is a good platform on which they could come up their concerns with prominent leaders for further development.

"I believe we should be always looking at how we can improve the standard of living at every level, whatever the reality is. ... We should always be asking what is the next to take the women to the next level of excellence," said Silver-Parker.

"We believe that our leadership development program is the best initiative we can share with the world. Because if you teach women to be leaders, and teach women the importance of being part of the process, or the financial markets, or the political arena, if women are there and pushing and educating others, then we can make a tremendous difference for all," she said.